Sugar and salt tax across the UK?

The Taxpayers Alliance mailing this morning:

The nanny state reared its ugly head again this week after a report commissioned by the government proposed that foods should be taxed based on their sugar and salt content. Written by Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain, his recommendations would see every household forking out an extra £172 per year to the taxman. 

Naturally, the TaxPayers' Alliance didn't delay in calling out these preposterous proposals that would create a £3/kg tax on sugar and £6/kg on salt in processed foods.

The aim of course, is just as the Pharoah did in biblical times with the bricks and straw - this thing has been around a very long time.  if economics is the science of scarcity ... voila!

When totted up, taxes on sugar and salt could mean that consumers pay an extra £4.8 billion in tax every year. We argue the proposals would target consumers, food manufacturers and the already struggling hospitality industry. It would be deeply regressive and see food items become either tasteless or reduced in portion sizes. 

Our findings were covered in Britain's biggest newspapers including the Daily Mail, The Sun and Daily Telegraph. Our chief executive John O'Connell was adamant that the government must stop its nannying attitude towards the British public.

It's like telling Hitler that he must stop his totalitarian national socialism as there were grave dangers there.  Just as Boris does here to that suggestion, so Hitler would have in his day.  The obvious question is and was - what do you propose to do about it?